Causing great interest, these were revealed when ivy was removed. The ivy had caused the church clock to stop. The gargoyles are fixed at each end of the drip-stone on the western side of the tower, which dates back to the C14th

This poster by J.F. Bee appeared in the Artist Magazine of July 1940 - it was entitled "A Leicestershire Village". Name of man and his dog not known !

JF Bee produced railway posters, watercolour landscapes and village scenes in the 1930s and 1940s, some depicting parts of Leicestershire. Of Hathern's Cross" he said "This is a type of village whose architecture is all too often dismissed as being ordinary and uninteresting but it has its charm nevertheless."

1905 or earlier. Looking from Cross up Narrow Lane and Dales Farm House. Postcard picture also on front cover of Old Hathern in Pictures

Generations of children have gathered on its 5 stone steps. maybe a stone cross or lantern head would have topped it once, and this would have made it a target for Parliamentarians during the Civil War